Improvement in peg-floats



G. DAVIS.

PEG-FLOAT.

Patented May 9,1876.

N4 PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE...

GENERAL DAVIS, OF MUNFORD, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEG-FLOATS.

-Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,214, dated May 9, 1876; application filed April 15, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, GENERAL DAVIS, of

' Munford, in the county of Talladega, and in The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an instrument for rasping and shaving the insides of shoes, as will be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion of the instrument, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of the whole.

In the figures, A and B represent two halfround bars of iron, which, as a general thing, will be made about one foot in length. i The flat sidesare placed together. Bar B has projecting from its center, and at right angles, a screwbolt, 01. This bolt passes through a slot in bar A, and is then provided with a thumb-nut, O.

The bolt, slot, and nut allow the two bars to move endwise, and the nut secures the bars in any desired position. D represents an ordinarily-shaped shoe or boot rasp upon its face,

but which has upon its back two cars or flanges, a: w. The inshave E is also constructed in the ordinary manner, with the exception that it is provided also upon its back with ears or flanges. The bars A and B are so pivoted at their ends to the ears of both the rasp and the inshave that when saidbars are moved longitudinally in opposite directions both the rasp and inshave assume different angles. At whatever angle they may assume they can be securely stationed by means of the set-screw G, and, simply by reversing the instrument, the tacks may be rasped from a shoe, or'the upper surface of the sole may be shaved, as the occasion may require.

The two bars, while of the same length, are not pivoted upon the same line, as seen, to the ears, which enables an easy movement with but little separation of the bars near their ends.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The bars A and B, pivoted to the ears of the rasp at one end, and the inside shaveat the opposite end, and regulated by a set-screw,

substantially as and for the purpose set forth..

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th A 

